I & II Samuel: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library)
A. Graeme Auld
Language: English
Pages: 710
ISBN: B01M2YFWXV
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this new addition to the Old Testament Library series, Graeme Auld writes, "This book is about David." The author demonstrates how all the other personalities in First and Second Samuel--including Samuel, for whom the books were named--are present so that we may see and know David better.These fascinating stories detail the lives of David, his predecessors, and their families. Auld explains that though we read these books from beginning to end, we need to understand that they were composed from end to beginning. By reconstructing what mus thave gone before, the story of David sets up and explains the succeeding story of monarchy in Israel.
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Old Testament, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. I & II Samuel The Old Testament Library The Old Testament Library I & II Samuel A Commentary by A. Graeme Auld In this new addition to the Old Testament Library series, Graeme Auld opens with the statement, “This book is about David.” The author demonstrates how all the other personalities in 1 and 2 Samuel—including Samuel, for whom the books were named—are present so that we may see and know David better.
supplied text is within rounded brackets. Auld-Book.indb 21 10/10/11 4:07 PM 22 1 Samuel 1:1–2:10 9 And Hannah got up after [she] they had eaten at Shiloh [and after drinkinga]; and Eli the priest was sittingb on the seat by the doorposts of the temple of Yahweh. 10 And she was bitter in spirit; and she prayed [against] towarda Yahweh [and wept] and wept. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of hosts,a if you really do look on the affliction of your maidservant
[to him] all the words and did not hide them from him. And he [Eli] said, “He is Yahweh: what seems good to him he will do.” 16 11a. The gt attests not dbr (mt) but the pl. dbry, perhaps influenced by the implicit pl. in “everything/all” (v. 12). 12a. Corresponding to the first ʾl, gt has epi, attesting ʿl; to the 2d, b has eis but lt kai epi. See below. 13a. gt reads the w- as simple copula, taking hgdty as coordinate with the immediately previous dbrty (b renders by pf. and lt by
composed, and to which future livelihood is promised in Jer 17:26; 32:44; 33:13. People in postexilic Yehud who were familiar with the book of Jeremiah and turned to the books of Samuel would not have thought of Saul as coming from a people or land different from David, only from a different part of it. Seeing and hearing have equal prominence at the head of this section. Yahweh has uncovered the ear of Samuel, because he (Yahweh) has “seen” his people, whose cry has come to him. We are
invitation in Judg 20:7, Saul’s chiefs are being invited not to provide answers but to witness the divine answer. “Know and see” is a combination that we shall find recurring in the books of Samuel, but in different contexts. Here the seeing and knowing are simply the two aspects of the one act of recognition. The authority of the promised demonstration is underscored when Saul pronounces—in an oath by Yahweh’s very life!—that even Jonathan, his son and heir, will die if guilty: no answering